To be honest, I usually ignore the Toolbox column in MSDN Magazine. Usually it features various vendors’ offerings around .NET. The December 2007 issue is typical in that it features .netLIVEHELP ($395), Instant C#\/VB ($179), and UltraMon ($39.95). November 2007 featured Spread for Windows Forms ($899), Peter’s Date Package ($90), and WinMerge (free). Previous issues are similar. I’m not commenting about the quality of the software, but more about the focus on commercial offerings.<\/p>\n
Today I received the January 2008 issue in the mail (it’s not yet online) and flipped it open. The word “mocking” in the Toolbox column caught my eye and I thought, yet another advertisement for TypeMock. Then I did a double-take. Toolbox was featuring Rhino Mocks by Oren Eini (aka Ayende Rahien). The other features were MbUnit (free), JetBrains’ dotTrace ($499), and Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk<\/em>. Both Rhino Mocks and MbUnit are open source tools. Although dotTrace is a commercial tool, it’s the best profiling tool that I’ve ever used – and I’ve tried a lot of them!* If you watched my MSDN webcast on tools, you’ll notice that I highly recommend all three tools. I hope that Toolbox’s new author, James Avery, keeps up the excellent work and continues to feature great open source frameworks alongside commercial offerings! Times, they are a-changing. Good open source software is starting to get the respect and recognition it deserves.<\/p>\n * To be honest, I’ve heard excellent things about Red Gate’s ANTS Profiler, but haven’t had a chance to try it and compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To be honest, I usually ignore the Toolbox column in MSDN Magazine. Usually it features various vendors’ offerings around .NET. The December 2007 issue is typical in that it features .netLIVEHELP ($395), Instant C#\/VB ($179), and UltraMon ($39.95). November 2007 featured Spread for Windows Forms ($899), Peter’s Date Package ($90), and WinMerge (free). Previous issues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dotnettools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}